Why I hate shopping at Gamestop.

Gamestop is that giant monopoly that crushes my soul and spirit every time I want to buy a new videogame. When I step into any Gamestop store I’m usually immediately harassed by some teenage failure whose first introduction to anything videogame related was his Gamestop employee orientation. Every store clerk I’ve encountered at Gamestop has usually been completely oblivious about the product they’re trying to force feed me. They attack you in hopes of getting you to reserve a game (a practice which the company is notoriously known for not honoring), buy a discount card/gift card, or buy a subscription to Game Informer magazine. Even with all these pushy salesman tactics Gamestop makes most of it’s money off used games. If you’re a casual gamer who doesn’t care about replay value and would instead sell a beaten game to help pay for future video games by all means avoid Gamestop. They will offer you a terrible price and turn around and sell that game used for triple what you where offered. Even buying new games isn’t safe. I’ve read on a few gaming sites that employees are allowed to take home new games, play them, and then restock them on the shelf to be sold as new. I read one story where a guy bought a game he thought had never been opened and when he took it home a note from a Gamestop employee to his girlfriend fell out of the game’s instruction manual. I also liked learning that when all three new consoles launched Gamestop employees were allowed to reserve consoles for themselves so they could later sell them on eBay for outrageous prices. I hate you Gamestop.